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CPP: Fachverband Chemische Physik und Polymerphysik
CPP 29: Nanostructures, Nanostructuring and Nanosized Soft Matter I
CPP 29.7: Talk
Tuesday, March 13, 2018, 12:45–13:00, C 230
Spray-mediated shear forces versus topographical confinement: controlling the orientation of silver nanowires — •Patrick T. Probst1, Sribharani Sekar1,2, Tobias A.F. König1,3, Petr Formanek1, Gero Decher2, Andreas Fery1,3, and Matthias Pauly2 — 1Leibniz-Inst. für Polymerforschung Dresden e.V., Germany — 2Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, Inst. Charles Sadron, France — 3Centre for Adv. Electronics Dresden, Germany
Grazing Incidence Spraying is known to enable linear arrangement of 1-dimensional nanoparticles facilitated by the arising shear forces. That way, optically and electrically anisotropic thin films of a vast variety of materials (metal, semiconductor, nanofibrils) can be readily produced on macroscopic scales (>5×5 mm2).
Surprisingly, parallel surface corrugations on the receiver substrate not only render the process more robust against rotational offsets during preparation, but, more interestingly, they can even reorient the particles by 90∘ to be parallel to the corrugations again. Controlling the balance between shear forces and topographical confinement opens new ways for constructing complex nano-patterns. We show how the microscopic linear arrangement of AgNWs evaluated by scanning electron microscopy (order parameter >0.9) reflects in a pronounced macroscopic optical anisotropy measured by conventional polarized UV-Vis-NIR spectroscopy.
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S. Sekar, P.T. Probst, M. Pauly et al., submitted.